- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1480-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 44
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in at least seven hands, containing the text of the wills of Jankyn (or John) Smyth and his wife, Margaret Odeham, detailing their bequests to the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds, as well as to other religious foundations, and the funeral expenses for Smyth. Also included are the grant of probate for Smyth's second will, dated 1481; and lists of lands donated by the couple, by name and location.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary binding of tawed white leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four leather thongs. Remains of clasp; brass pin and mount on lower cover., Decoration: Rubricated. Large blue initial with red penwork (f. 8)., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns, mostly of 32 lines., Numerous marginal annotations in both contemporary and later hands., and Script: manuscript is in at least seven hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bury St. Edmunds (England)--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Finance--Early works to 1800., Odeham, Margaret,--1492., Smyth, Jankyn,--1481., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charitable bequests--Early works to 1800., Endowments--Catholic Church., Legacies--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Benefactors' book of the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds.
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- Creator:
- Catholic Church.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1410]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 100
- Image Count:
- 377
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a book of hours according to the Use of Sarum. The Latin text is followed by a brief treatise in Middle English on prayer, titled "Here begynneth in what man[ner] preyer sholde be vsed." The volume concludes with prayers in Latin and Middle English.
- Alternative Title:
- Book of hours
- Description:
- Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box., Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members., Decoration: three historiated initials with full-page borders; one smaller historiated initials and seven large foliate initials with borders. many smaller initals in gold with blue penwork or in blue with red penwork., Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf., Formerly owned by the Chenye (Cheney) family; Jone Ffyn; Henry Huth; Edward Cheney. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf., and Script: gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church.--Book of hours. and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours : use of Sarum.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1275, ca. 1435]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 35
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
- Description:
- Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 52
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
- Description:
- Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 61
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [1400-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 68
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four Latin prayers for personal use. One of the rubrics is in Middle English.
- Description:
- Decoration: Rubricated. Two initials with marginal penwork decoration., In Latin, with one rubric in Middle English., Layout: single column., Previously owned by H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (his MS 17). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Probably written for the use of a man named Thomas, as that name is inserted in several passages., and Script: gothic script.
- Subject (Name):
- Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Prayers, Medieval.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer roll in Latin.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1435-1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 56
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, of a collection of Middle English and Latin prayers. Reverse of roll contains horizontal inscription suggesting that the item may have been intended as a birth girdle.
- Description:
- Binding: modern case., Decoration: four illustrations: the Three Nails, a Heart and Crown of Thorns; a Cross with the Instruments of the Passion; the Holy Wounds of Christ; and the Instruments of the Passion., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., Possibly from Tewkesbury (contains a copy of a prayer said to have been carried away by the Devil from Our Lady of Tewkesbury)., and Script: English rounded bookhand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Prayers, Medieval.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer roll in Middle English and Latin.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1525]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 116
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a collection of prayers, principally in Middle English.
- Description:
- From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: secretary script.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), Devotional literature, English., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Prayers, Medieval., and Prayers--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer roll in Middle English with passages in Latin.
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Caritate.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1461-1490]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 38
- Image Count:
- 248
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of this unique English prose version of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also includes a short astrological text (ff. 112-125) in Middle English, headed "secreta." The opening leaf is not present; the introduction by the translator praises Sir Miles Stapleton as his patron.
- Alternative Title:
- Secretum secretorum.
- Description:
- Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasps., Decoration: numerous initials in gold or in blue with contrasting penwork., Formerly owned by Richard Elde; John Harcourt; A. A. Judo?. Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines., Numerous errors in pencil foliation., Script: English bookhand., and Several verses and aphorisms in a sixteenth?-century cursive hand on blank leaves and in margins.
- Subject (Name):
- Johannes,--de Caritate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology--Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Medieval., Astronomy--Early works to 1800., Education of princes--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine, Medieval., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Privite of privyteis.
10.
- Published / Created:
- [1475-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 47
- Image Count:
- 422
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, containing the text of the psalter, preceded by prayers and a calendar, and followed by canticles and a litany. The calendar is very detailed and includes dates of various English battles, the latest of which is the battle of Dunkirk (1483).
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board., Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Latin; a few notes in the calendar in Middle English., Layout: single columns of 21 lines., Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.), and Script: rounded gothic liturgical script.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy., Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Psalters., and Psalters--England--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter.